Oh Boy, Did We Do Some Celebrating Last Night!

After Obama's speech last night, our little party of 10 or so took to Broadway, where nobody had yet gathered, and walked from Republican to Pike, high-fiving people and cheering, provoking cars to honk and just having a ball. By the time we got back to Broadway and John, this was happening:

After that, we came home and wrote on our personal blog. Since we're still too mind-blown to think of anything better to say, here's an excerpt:

It was absolute unbridled celebration. Not for any reason other than people just needed to be together to celebrate. I tried to liken it to anything else I've ever experienced. Mardi Gras came to mind, but that's a planned event. New Years Eve is comparable, but not really. This wasn't people having a party. This was people thanking each other, thanking life, thanking the world. This was people suddenly realizing that they did something. Something big and lasting and great. That they decided enough was enough, and they did something about it. It was urgent celebration. The kind that we had been waiting for. The kind that couldn't wait any longer.

It was everything we wanted to happen and never imagined was actually possible. Imagining a city of people gathering just to gather, celebrating because the occasion called for it, cheering and hugging and laughing because everything had gone right...it was unbelievable in the truest sense of the word.

Yes, it'll take me a long time to digest this. President Barack Obama from Kansas, Hawaii, Indonesia, Kenya. President Barack Obama from community organizing in Chicago. It's okay to believe in something. It's not ridiculous to hope and have faith in the power of the human spirit, the definitive, life-altering power of community. It is what works.